Re: [CentOS] Cannot get CentOS to install
JohnS wrote: On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 14:15 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote: JohnS wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 15:21 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote: I would really like to get CentOS 5.2 or 5.3 installed on the system if there is a work around. --- What are you using to burn the CDs? How old is the CD Drive that your are using to install? How old is the cable? Last thing strip it down to the bare minimum harwdare and install? JohnStanley I burned the CD images on Windows using Roxio and an AOpen DVD Read/ CDRW drive. The burned CD's test fine in more than one system. I do have to test them with ide=nodma to get them to pass. The CD Drive and IDE Cable on the system I am trying to install is 5 years old. I searched the CentOS site and mailing list for similar issues and found one dating back to last year. The anaconda errors were similar. I finally got 5.2 to install and the fix was to tell the kernel to ignore the ide tape device. The tape drive is on hdd and the following allowed me to do a GUI install with 512 MB. linux ide=nodma hdd=none Just currious does the tape drive work since install? Would like like to know the brand of it also for reference. I thought I would post my result so that this request for help could be closed. Thanks for having this list to provide the avenue to a solution. JohnStanley ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I have used mt and cpio to access the tape drive with and they work fine. The tape drive is an ECRIX VXA-1a ATAPI TAPE drive. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cannot get CentOS to install
on 3-27-2009 1:07 PM Michael Peterson spake the following: JohnS wrote: On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 14:15 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote: JohnS wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 15:21 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote: I would really like to get CentOS 5.2 or 5.3 installed on the system if there is a work around. --- What are you using to burn the CDs? How old is the CD Drive that your are using to install? How old is the cable? Last thing strip it down to the bare minimum harwdare and install? JohnStanley I burned the CD images on Windows using Roxio and an AOpen DVD Read/ CDRW drive. The burned CD's test fine in more than one system. I do have to test them with ide=nodma to get them to pass. The CD Drive and IDE Cable on the system I am trying to install is 5 years old. I searched the CentOS site and mailing list for similar issues and found one dating back to last year. The anaconda errors were similar. I finally got 5.2 to install and the fix was to tell the kernel to ignore the ide tape device. The tape drive is on hdd and the following allowed me to do a GUI install with 512 MB. linux ide=nodma hdd=none Just currious does the tape drive work since install? Would like like to know the brand of it also for reference. I thought I would post my result so that this request for help could be closed. Thanks for having this list to provide the avenue to a solution. JohnStanley ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I have used mt and cpio to access the tape drive with and they work fine. The tape drive is an ECRIX VXA-1a ATAPI TAPE drive. It must resemble a hard drive just enough to confuse the installer. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cannot get CentOS to install
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 15:10 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: on 3-27-2009 1:07 PM Michael Peterson spake the following: JohnS wrote: On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 14:15 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote: JohnS wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 15:21 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote: I would really like to get CentOS 5.2 or 5.3 installed on the system if there is a work around. --- What are you using to burn the CDs? How old is the CD Drive that your are using to install? How old is the cable? Last thing strip it down to the bare minimum harwdare and install? JohnStanley I burned the CD images on Windows using Roxio and an AOpen DVD Read/ CDRW drive. The burned CD's test fine in more than one system. I do have to test them with ide=nodma to get them to pass. The CD Drive and IDE Cable on the system I am trying to install is 5 years old. I searched the CentOS site and mailing list for similar issues and found one dating back to last year. The anaconda errors were similar. I finally got 5.2 to install and the fix was to tell the kernel to ignore the ide tape device. The tape drive is on hdd and the following allowed me to do a GUI install with 512 MB. linux ide=nodma hdd=none Just currious does the tape drive work since install? Would like like to know the brand of it also for reference. I thought I would post my result so that this request for help could be closed. Thanks for having this list to provide the avenue to a solution. JohnStanley ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I have used mt and cpio to access the tape drive with and they work fine. The tape drive is an ECRIX VXA-1a ATAPI TAPE drive. It must resemble a hard drive just enough to confuse the installer. -- That's why I wondered and wanted to know. Seems like BSD has the same problem with the same tape drive. JohnStanley ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cannot get CentOS to install
JohnS wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 15:21 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote: I would really like to get CentOS 5.2 or 5.3 installed on the system if there is a work around. --- What are you using to burn the CDs? How old is the CD Drive that your are using to install? How old is the cable? Last thing strip it down to the bare minimum harwdare and install? JohnStanley ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I burned the CD images on Windows using Roxio and an AOpen DVD Read/ CDRW drive. The burned CD's test fine in more than one system. I do have to test them with ide=nodma to get them to pass. The CD Drive and IDE Cable on the system I am trying to install is 5 years old. I searched the CentOS site and mailing list for similar issues and found one dating back to last year. The anaconda errors were similar. I finally got 5.2 to install and the fix was to tell the kernel to ignore the ide tape device. The tape drive is on hdd and the following allowed me to do a GUI install with 512 MB. linux ide=nodma hdd=none I thought I would post my result so that this request for help could be closed. Thanks for having this list to provide the avenue to a solution. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cannot get CentOS to install [SOLVED]
Michael Peterson wrote: ... I burned the CD images on Windows using Roxio and an AOpen DVD Read/ CDRW drive. The burned CD's test fine in more than one system. I do have to test them with ide=nodma to get them to pass. The CD Drive and IDE Cable on the system I am trying to install is 5 years old. I searched the CentOS site and mailing list for similar issues and found one dating back to last year. The anaconda errors were similar. I finally got 5.2 to install and the fix was to tell the kernel to ignore the ide tape device. The tape drive is on hdd and the following allowed me to do a GUI install with 512 MB. linux ide=nodma hdd=none I thought I would post my result so that this request for help could be closed. Thanks for having this list to provide the avenue to a solution. Thanks for posting the solution for posterity to close it out. BTW - I think it is a convention to add SOLVED in the subject to indicate closure. Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cannot get CentOS to install
Michael Peterson wrote: Scott Silva wrote: on 3-11-2009 1:44 PM Michael Peterson spake the following: William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 16:37 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote: I used google but did not come up with anything current to solve my problem. I have not tried any other search engines yet. There is not a search for the CentOS list so I am creating a new post. See below - it's really hard to find. I have tested the CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 CD's and they passed. I had to use linux mediacheck ide=nodma to get them to pass. The newest releases seem to most times fail with just linux mediacheck. Try making the media after padding the iso image with about 300k of zeros. When you search the archives (there is a search - I'll mention below) there are a couple of threads about this. I have tried linux ide=nodma and linux text ide=nodma after trying linux and linux text Anaconda fails on both CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 in all cases. With only 512MB or ram you will have to use text mode only, IIRC. Also in the archives. There's also some threads that mention noacpi, acpi=no and some other stuff I can't recall. The system I am trying to install on is running CentOS 3.x. The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD, ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive. Please provide any options to the kernel that I should try besides the ones mentioned above that fail. snip For your google searches, go to the advanced section and specify centos.org. That gets what's in the archives. To search directly from CentOS site, click Search on http://centos.org/ HTH, The system I am trying to install on boot with out problems or errors on the 5.2 Live CD. Gui works Firefox and Network work I tried the options mentioned and more and get the same errors. They are: Starting graphical installation ... Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/anaconda, line 900, in ? iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes() File /usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py. line 264, in makeDriveDeviceNodes isys.makeDevinode(device, dev /%s % (device,)) File /usr/lib/anaconda.isys.py, line 422, inmakeDevInode _isys.mkdevinode(name,fn) SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory') install exited abnormally [1/1] sending termination signals ... done The RHEL 5.3 boot disk is the same as above except the line 900 is 924. I have tried text and GUI and ide=nodma pci=noacpi with both. Can you see and write to the hard disks with the Live CD? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos The Live CD can see and access the 3ware RAID connected drives. It is using the swap partition. I was able to switch to root and remount a file system read-write and copy files from one mount point to another. I then deleted the files with no problem. I will try to boot CentOS 5.1 CD 1 on Monday and see what results I get. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos CentOS 5.1 NetInstall CD or CD1 both error out with the same results as 5.2 in anaconda. CentOS 4.4 CD 1 which uses the older style install method boots and looks like it could install on the system. I would really like to get CentOS 5.2 or 5.3 installed on the system if there is a work around. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cannot get CentOS to install
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 15:21 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote: I would really like to get CentOS 5.2 or 5.3 installed on the system if there is a work around. --- What are you using to burn the CDs? How old is the CD Drive that your are using to install? How old is the cable? Last thing strip it down to the bare minimum harwdare and install? JohnStanley ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cannot get CentOS to install
Lanny Marcus wrote: On 3/10/09, William L. Maltby centos4b...@triad.rr.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 16:37 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote: I used google but did not come up with anything current to solve my problem. I have not tried any other search engines yet. There is not a search for the CentOS list so I am creating a new post. Using Google to search you can begin with: site:centos.org and then your search terms snip With only 512MB or ram you will have to use text mode only, IIRC. Also in the archives. There's also some threads that mention noacpi, acpi=no and some other stuff I can't recall. I have installed CentOS 5.2 (32 bit) using the graphical install on a box with 384 MB of RAM. Slow, but it worked. My daughters box is a P4 1.6 GHz with 384 MB of RAM. It will install with 512 MB of RAM, more happily. Wife's box and mine have 512 MB of RAM. The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD, ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive. Have you tried the CentOS LiveCD on that HW, to see if everything will work properly? I haven't had to use any special parameters, to get the graphical installs to work on our old Desktop boxes. If it won't go with the LiveCD, try another version ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos The system works properly with the LiveCD. GUI and network come up fine. No kernel options needed. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cannot get CentOS to install
John R Pierce wrote: Michael Peterson wrote: The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD, ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive. probably more important than any of the data you've given there is, what chipset on the mainboard, which 3ware card, and what dual NIC chips ? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos The Live CD of 5.2 works with out kernel parameters and gives no errors but the install CD will not boot GUI or Text. The Chipset is Intel. The 3ware card is Escalade 7000-2 The NIC chips are both internal Intel 82557 Pro 100 as per the Live CD hwconf file. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cannot get CentOS to install
William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 16:37 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote: I used google but did not come up with anything current to solve my problem. I have not tried any other search engines yet. There is not a search for the CentOS list so I am creating a new post. See below - it's really hard to find. I have tested the CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 CD's and they passed. I had to use linux mediacheck ide=nodma to get them to pass. The newest releases seem to most times fail with just linux mediacheck. Try making the media after padding the iso image with about 300k of zeros. When you search the archives (there is a search - I'll mention below) there are a couple of threads about this. I have tried linux ide=nodma and linux text ide=nodma after trying linux and linux text Anaconda fails on both CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 in all cases. With only 512MB or ram you will have to use text mode only, IIRC. Also in the archives. There's also some threads that mention noacpi, acpi=no and some other stuff I can't recall. The system I am trying to install on is running CentOS 3.x. The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD, ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive. Please provide any options to the kernel that I should try besides the ones mentioned above that fail. snip For your google searches, go to the advanced section and specify centos.org. That gets what's in the archives. To search directly from CentOS site, click Search on http://centos.org/ HTH, The system I am trying to install on boot with out problems or errors on the 5.2 Live CD. Gui works Firefox and Network work I tried the options mentioned and more and get the same errors. They are: Starting graphical installation ... Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/anaconda, line 900, in ? iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes() File /usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py. line 264, in makeDriveDeviceNodes isys.makeDevinode(device, dev /%s % (device,)) File /usr/lib/anaconda.isys.py, line 422, inmakeDevInode _isys.mkdevinode(name,fn) SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory') install exited abnormally [1/1] sending termination signals ... done The RHEL 5.3 boot disk is the same as above except the line 900 is 924. I have tried text and GUI and ide=nodma pci=noacpi with both. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cannot get CentOS to install
on 3-11-2009 1:44 PM Michael Peterson spake the following: William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 16:37 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote: I used google but did not come up with anything current to solve my problem. I have not tried any other search engines yet. There is not a search for the CentOS list so I am creating a new post. See below - it's really hard to find. I have tested the CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 CD's and they passed. I had to use linux mediacheck ide=nodma to get them to pass. The newest releases seem to most times fail with just linux mediacheck. Try making the media after padding the iso image with about 300k of zeros. When you search the archives (there is a search - I'll mention below) there are a couple of threads about this. I have tried linux ide=nodma and linux text ide=nodma after trying linux and linux text Anaconda fails on both CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 in all cases. With only 512MB or ram you will have to use text mode only, IIRC. Also in the archives. There's also some threads that mention noacpi, acpi=no and some other stuff I can't recall. The system I am trying to install on is running CentOS 3.x. The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD, ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive. Please provide any options to the kernel that I should try besides the ones mentioned above that fail. snip For your google searches, go to the advanced section and specify centos.org. That gets what's in the archives. To search directly from CentOS site, click Search on http://centos.org/ HTH, The system I am trying to install on boot with out problems or errors on the 5.2 Live CD. Gui works Firefox and Network work I tried the options mentioned and more and get the same errors. They are: Starting graphical installation ... Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/anaconda, line 900, in ? iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes() File /usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py. line 264, in makeDriveDeviceNodes isys.makeDevinode(device, dev /%s % (device,)) File /usr/lib/anaconda.isys.py, line 422, inmakeDevInode _isys.mkdevinode(name,fn) SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory') install exited abnormally [1/1] sending termination signals ... done The RHEL 5.3 boot disk is the same as above except the line 900 is 924. I have tried text and GUI and ide=nodma pci=noacpi with both. Can you see and write to the hard disks with the Live CD? -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cannot get CentOS to install
On Mar 11, 2009, at 4:44 PM, Michael Peterson mpeter...@mail.charlesfurniture.com wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 16:37 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote: I used google but did not come up with anything current to solve my problem. I have not tried any other search engines yet. There is not a search for the CentOS list so I am creating a new post. See below - it's really hard to find. I have tested the CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 CD's and they passed. I had to use linux mediacheck ide=nodma to get them to pass. The newest releases seem to most times fail with just linux mediacheck. Try making the media after padding the iso image with about 300k of zeros. When you search the archives (there is a search - I'll mention below) there are a couple of threads about this. I have tried linux ide=nodma and linux text ide=nodma after trying linux and linux text Anaconda fails on both CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 in all cases. With only 512MB or ram you will have to use text mode only, IIRC. Also in the archives. There's also some threads that mention noacpi, acpi=no and some other stuff I can't recall. The system I am trying to install on is running CentOS 3.x. The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD, ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive. Please provide any options to the kernel that I should try besides the ones mentioned above that fail. snip For your google searches, go to the advanced section and specify centos.org. That gets what's in the archives. To search directly from CentOS site, click Search on http://centos.org/ HTH, The system I am trying to install on boot with out problems or errors on the 5.2 Live CD. Gui works Firefox and Network work I tried the options mentioned and more and get the same errors. They are: Starting graphical installation ... Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/anaconda, line 900, in ? iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes() File /usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py. line 264, in makeDriveDeviceNodes isys.makeDevinode(device, dev /%s % (device,)) File /usr/lib/anaconda.isys.py, line 422, inmakeDevInode _isys.mkdevinode(name,fn) SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory') install exited abnormally [1/1] sending termination signals ... done The RHEL 5.3 boot disk is the same as above except the line 900 is 924. I have tried text and GUI and ide=nodma pci=noacpi with both. Make sure Install Mode is disabled in the BIOS as it will limit memory to 256MB in some machines which will make GUI install bork. -Ross ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cannot get CentOS to install
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 16:37 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote: I used google but did not come up with anything current to solve my problem. I have not tried any other search engines yet. There is not a search for the CentOS list so I am creating a new post. See below - it's really hard to find. I have tested the CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 CD's and they passed. I had to use linux mediacheck ide=nodma to get them to pass. The newest releases seem to most times fail with just linux mediacheck. Try making the media after padding the iso image with about 300k of zeros. When you search the archives (there is a search - I'll mention below) there are a couple of threads about this. I have tried linux ide=nodma and linux text ide=nodma after trying linux and linux text Anaconda fails on both CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 in all cases. With only 512MB or ram you will have to use text mode only, IIRC. Also in the archives. There's also some threads that mention noacpi, acpi=no and some other stuff I can't recall. The system I am trying to install on is running CentOS 3.x. The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD, ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive. Please provide any options to the kernel that I should try besides the ones mentioned above that fail. snip For your google searches, go to the advanced section and specify centos.org. That gets what's in the archives. To search directly from CentOS site, click Search on http://centos.org/ HTH, -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cannot get CentOS to install
On 3/10/09, William L. Maltby centos4b...@triad.rr.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 16:37 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote: I used google but did not come up with anything current to solve my problem. I have not tried any other search engines yet. There is not a search for the CentOS list so I am creating a new post. Using Google to search you can begin with: site:centos.org and then your search terms snip With only 512MB or ram you will have to use text mode only, IIRC. Also in the archives. There's also some threads that mention noacpi, acpi=no and some other stuff I can't recall. I have installed CentOS 5.2 (32 bit) using the graphical install on a box with 384 MB of RAM. Slow, but it worked. My daughters box is a P4 1.6 GHz with 384 MB of RAM. It will install with 512 MB of RAM, more happily. Wife's box and mine have 512 MB of RAM. The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD, ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive. Have you tried the CentOS LiveCD on that HW, to see if everything will work properly? I haven't had to use any special parameters, to get the graphical installs to work on our old Desktop boxes. If it won't go with the LiveCD, try another version ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cannot get CentOS to install
The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD, ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive. if you could install centos 3 on this hardware, then centos 5.x should work...any error messages from the console? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
